Ed Laheyhttp://mtpr.org
enLiterary Butte: A History In Novels & Filmhttp://mtpr.org/post/literary-butte-history-novels-film
<p>Known worldwide as the “Richest Hill on Earth,” Butte, Montana, lured immigrants from every part of the world to sweat in the copper mines that powered America in its Gilded Age. Dozens of writers celebrated this “wide-open town” with impassioned novels of the rugged souls who braved the western frontier at the edge of the Continental Divide.Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:45:43 +0000Chérie Newman33721 at http://mtpr.orgLiterary Butte: A History In Novels & FilmRegan deVictoria & Ed Lahey: Leaving Buttehttp://mtpr.org/post/regan-devictoria-ed-lahey-leaving-butte
<p></p><p></p><p>"You come to Butte, Montana direct from seven exhausting years in the city, seeking solace, expecting blight, and finding home."&nbsp; Missoula native <a href="http://mamalode.com/writer/160/" target="_blank">Regan deVictoria</a> fell for Butte "as you do a man with a harelip despite deformities, and later, because of them." Poet <a href="http://davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com/2014/11/ed-lahey-buttes-underground-poet.html" target="_blank">Ed Lahey</a> was born to a family of Butte miners in 1936. From his adopted home of Missoula, he looked back at The Mining City:</p>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0000Beth Anne Austein29460 at http://mtpr.orgRegan deVictoria & Ed Lahey: Leaving ButteMark Gibbons & Ed Laheyhttp://mtpr.org/post/mark-gibbons-ed-lahey
<p></p><p><a href="http://gibbonspoetry.com/" target="_blank">Mark Gibbons</a> began his "relationship with booze" at "watering holes, western bars, those dens of iniquity, as integral a part of the western landscape as horses or teepees...Fueled by alcohol late into the night, bars surely held unpredictable wildness, danger and vice; but in small western towns, the bar was the social center of the community." Poet <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ed-Lahey/189996074380257" target="_blank">Ed Lahey</a> recalls a working-class Butte bar in "The Ballad of the Board of Trade Bar:"</p>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 01:02:59 +0000Beth Anne Austein28248 at http://mtpr.orgMark Gibbons & Ed Lahey"Birds of a Feather"http://mtpr.org/post/birds-feather-0
<p>(For Marylor)</p>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:47:20 +0000Ed Lahey15137 at http://mtpr.org"Birds of a Feather"